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Article: United States: BP to close test gas-to-liquids plant in Alaska.
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- September 3, 2009
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Byline: shiv03
BP (BP.L) said it will close a facility in Alaska that has been used for seven years to test technology that converts natural gas into liquid fuel.
BP Exploration Alaska Inc, the company's Alaska unit, said Tuesday its facility at Nikiski on the Kenai Peninsula south of Anchorage has fulfilled its mission, successfully demonstrating that diesel fuel and aviation fuel can be reliably produced from natural gas.
"The goal was research," said BP spokesman Steve Rinehart. "This was not a production-sized plant. But the processes were scaled up sufficiently to make sure that it would work."
The plant used about Cook Inlet ...